[libvirt PATCH] spec: Merge -bash-completion and -admin into -client

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 12:44:09 UTC 2021


On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:36:19AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > The -client package needs then to obsolete those packages which you're
> > removing. Loo around at "Obsoletes:" tag we have around.
> 
> Also needs a Provides tag to satisy any deps other packages have on it

Makes sense, will do.

> > However, I'm not sure that virt-admin should go to client package. For
> > instance, I can install -client to control remote daemon but virt-admin
> > works only locally (because we want it to). Therefore, if anything, it
> > should go in the same package as libvirtd. But taking split daemons into
> > account - any of them should drag in virt-admin.

Some of the things that currently live in the -client package are
also local-only: virt-host-validate, virt-pki-validate and
libvirt-guests. I agree that the distinction is not entirely
clear-cut, but virt-admin fits slightly better in -client than in
-daemon IMHO.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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